Window-cleaner.



, E. GOODWIN.

WINDOW CLEANER.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.15,-1913.

1 1 1 1 575 Patented Sept. 22, 1914,

fizz/672257" M THE NORRIS PETERS 004, PHOTO-LITHXnEWA5HINGmu n p :UNITEDSTATESPATENT 1 ELLA eoonwrn, oronroaeo,rttrnorsf To all whomit may comemw,

Be it known that LErlrirr Goonwin, a fciti i zen of the United States of America, and a j, is a side elevationv with the cloth holding resident of'Ohicago, county of Cook, and

State of Illinois, have invented certain'new and useful Improvements Vfindow'Oleaners,iof-which the followlng 1s a speclfication.

. My'invention relates to window cleaners andhas for its object improvements in such a is devices. y

In the accompanyingdrawings Figure 1 jaws in open positionand with the handle folded to its shortest length; Fig. 2 is a similar elevation'with the jaws closed and the-handle extendecl;Fig. 3 is an enlarged f elevation of the upper part in the direction 30f Fig. 1,the cloth being removed; Fig. a

' the other sash when the window is opened for cleaning purposes, and to thls end the devlce and 1ts handle are made of sheet is a plan of Figld; and Fig. 5 is an en-- larged elevation, partly in section, of the upper part as it-appears inFlg. 2,but w th the cloth removed.

One of the objects of the present inven' tionis to make a cleaner which will pass easily through the narrow space between the glass of one sash and the adjacent rail of metal so that the device as a whole has but little thickness and the handle is somewhat This flexibility avoids the inecessity of the hand ofthe operator being forced K The handle consists of one" long against the glass when the head of the cleaner passes through this narrow space, Y and the flexibility of the partsgof the handle permits the aws'to be easily opened. strip folded near, the middle of its length as shown at in Fig. 1, andhaving secured on theends of itsbranches or arms 11 and 12,-the jaws 13 and 14. jaws have v teeth 15 for engaging and holdmg the VJZLSh-w ing cloth Onthe branches 11- and 12 12: a

'- permitsthejaws to be opened for ferrule 16, which when moved downward,

- tion or removaliiofthe cloth O. lVhen the ferrule 16 is moved upward it' forces the jaws together to gripfth'e cloth as shown. in Fig- 2. One of these'jawsis preferably lowerthan the'othe'r-so that in closing they will pass each'other andthus produce a thinner cleaner thanwould be the case if thejinserthey met each other on the same horizontal wrnnow-crnanna.

placebywires l8, passingaround the rubber. 18 and through holesfin lthe jaw 14 to the inner face of said jaw. The inner ends ofthes'e wires are then twisted together as shown at 19 so as to draw the outer parts .of-the wire'into the outer surface of the rub" herfl' Y. As thussecuredlthe rubber is held without the ordinaryclamping plates, and the wire beingembedded in the rubber does not touch the glass when the cleaner is used; When the rubber wears by use the wires may be: drawn in farther by twisting 'the endsfurther. This'may be readily done with a pair'of pliers.

hinged an arm 21 formed byfolding a strip of sheet metal upon itself, the link being the pivot at the point where the metal is bent back upon itself. The ends'of thisstrip ar secured together by a rivet 22. One end of is embraced by a ferrule 23 slidable on the branch 12.. l 1 j t On the arm 21 is. a sliding ferrule 24 which is prevented from slipping off the arm by a pin 25 secured to said arm near its free end. By slipping the ferrule 23 upward to release the free end of the arm 21', said arm may be turned on its pivot 20 from the position shown in Fig. 1 to that shown in Fig. 2, and the ferrule 24 may be slipped over the end of the main handle to "bind it to the arm 21. In this position the arm 21 becomes an extension to the main handle.

What l claim is 1.1a a window cleaner, a pair of flexible arms of. flat sheet metal, a pair of jaws sccured to the upper end of said arms, and a flexible handle of flat sheet metal attached to and extending beyond the lower end of said pair of. arms.

The combination with the head of a window cleaner, of a folding handle secured to said head, said handle being formed ofthin fiat metal andbeing flexible in both its folded and extended positions.

3. In a window cleaner, a handle formed of two flexible arms, cloth-holding jaws on the endsv of saidarms, a slidable ferrule for bringing the arms together to close thejaws,

' To the handle composed of the parts 11 *and "12 is secured a link 20 on which is iSpecificationof LettersPatent. j

- theyupper corner thehigherjaw '14 1s a p ece'of rubber 17 whichis held in the strip projectsbeyond the other end and I an arm pivoted to said handle and movable flexible arm pivoted to the td'eXtend v vices for securing said pivotedar'lnineither from a ositinl tith side f" lz ibfei.defii if fieeafifififihexrfi w to a positi'dfi "idjacl'it todhe' end of the 1n eitherwof two positions." I handle to extend the length thereof, and de- Signed at Qh ie agq lgll-inois this 13th day "bf Deeembi" 1913. f Y ELLA .GOODWIN.

of its two positlons. 4. In a Window cleaner, a handle-formed of two-arms, qlr-the end 0f-said arms, 

